Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts recently stated that Google is actually pulling back on Panda because of too many false positives. To make matters worse, Google likes to take large manual actions just prior to major algorithm updates.
Webmasters have been watching for Penguin 2.0 to hit the Google search results since Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts first announced that there would be the next generation of Penguin. We started rolling out the next generation of the...
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts answered a trio of questions on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel: With 3 Million new users, Feedly upgrades search and discovery engines, looking at user behavior to improve algorithm, adds title...
Google Panda will soon evolve from monthly (or so) manual refreshes to a constant part of Google's real-time algorithm, according to Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts. Now if Panda hits your website for having "low-quality" (thin) content...
You can expect another Google Panda update to roll out this Friday or Monday, according to Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts. Panda is Google’s algorithm aimed at surfacing high-quality sites higher in search results.
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts has hinted at an upcoming Google update that is aimed at protecting searchers by lowering the rankings of merchants. Google Shopping's Google Trusted Stores program is a clear indicator of a quality...
Here is what Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts had to say in my recent interview with him: What follows are 10 of the most common link problems that have resulted in link related penalties or lost rankings due to a Google algorithm update.
Live in Las Vegas it actually brought cheers from the audience before DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts even said what it was Google was launching, because the audience hoped the announcement was a long-rumored link disavow tool.
News of the refresh came today via a tweet from Matt Cutts, Google’s DistinguishedEngineer. Google’s Penguin Update, originally known as the Web Spam Algorithm Update, was first released in April and impacted 3.1 percent of English queries.
But if you don’t believe me, look what Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts had to say when asked at SMX Advanced 2012 whether Google hates SEOs. If done by someone with excellent skills and a lot of experience, it will appear natural and the...
Google's DistinguishedEngineer outlined three bulleted points on his "major issues with this article":
the left-hand column is counted as non-search, when the left-hand column is entirely about search.
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts was the headline attraction this morning as SES San Francisco 2012 Day 2 kicked off. Panda came from the last name of the engineer who worked on it. Since Google’s Penguin engineer wasn’t named after an...
Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts confirmed this with me in a recent interview: With Google's new capabilities, they can easily implement an algorithm that focuses solely on anchor text mix. One of the great things about this is that it...
After successfully scaring the crap out of many business, along came Google’s DistinguishedEngineer, telling everyone not to panic and assuring everyone this was just a case of Google trying to be more transparent and not a warning that a penalty...
Matt Cutts, Google DistinguishedEngineer and head of the web spam team, tackled the subject in a Google Webmaster Help video blog yesterday, in response to a question submitted by SEO AJ Kohn. The 120+ page guide was more a reinforcement of search...
If you want to report spam that Google is missing, fill out a spam report and add the word penguin,” Cutts, Google’s DistinguishedEngineer who leads the web spam team, tweeted yesterday. This move is similar to last year after Panda launched, when...
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, yesterday announced that Google had pushed out the new algorithm. Webspam Algorithm Update The web spam algorithm update will affect about 3.1 percent of English Google queries...
Rather, it was a bug involving Google’s classifier for parked domains, as Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts explained and apologized for on Google+. This is a new algorithm for automatically detecting parked domains.
Manjoo cites an example mentioned by Google's DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts of where the presentation of personal results in the SERPs supposedly 'work'. If Lee's post isn't coming up for all Google searchers–rather than just the ones who are...
Google’s DistinguishedEngineer Matt Cutts, in a blog post, reported that the “Page Layout algorithmic improvement” will effect 1 percent of searches globally – which is no small number considering Google powers at least 3 billion searches per day...